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Governance and Economic Management Support (GEMS)

The Liberia Governance and Economic Management Support Program (GEMS) is a five year, $45 million program to strengthen public sector capacity in Liberia. GEMS is a follow on to the highly successful Governance and Economic Management Assistance Program (GEMAP) in Liberia that IBI implemented for USAID between 2006 and 2010, a program featured in World Development Report 2011 as an example of successful post-conflict recovery. GEMS will build on the systematic and institutional advances achieved in fiscal and financial management under GEMAP by working with Government of Liberia institutions to build human and institutional capacity in financial, organizational, and performance management. Specifically, the program will work with key ministries, agencies, and state-owned enterprises of Liberia to build management capacity, implement a comprehensive civil servant training initiative, strengthen the governments capacity to manage natural resource concessions, facilitate the implementation of the governments national ICT policy, and enable the Central Bank of Liberia to operate a modern national payment system.

Assist institutions at all levels of the executive authority, including offices, ministries, and independent governmental bodies, but excluding security agencies of government which are covered by DR.2.5 (civilian agencies) and PS.8.2 (military), to operate more accountably, efficiently, and effectively. Assist with policies, procedures, and skill sets (including leadership and strategic management) to guide operations; implementation and enforcement of laws, regulations and policies; building linkages among executive institutions and between the executive and other branches of government. This element captures activities that may cover a wide range of governmental/public administration functions including supporting financial management systems; civil service reforms; public-private partnerships; and working with citizens as customers of the government. Promote governance institutions, processes, and policies that are transparent and accountable across all levels of governance and all development sectors. Support non-governmental as well as governmental institutions at the national and subnational level (including enforcement and investigation entities, independent audit agencies, anti-corruption commissions, procurement agencies, legislatures, line ministries, independent agencies, political parties, judicial actors, as well as civil society organizations, academia, press and the private sector). Support civic education and advocacy for reform of laws and practices or directly improving accountability and transparency of governance processes covering various development sectors. This element is intended to record funding for programs whose primary focus is combating corruption. Assistance activities that do not primarily focus on combating corruption but that include combating corruption as a secondary or other focus should be recorded in the category of primary focus. OUs should use the “Anti-corruption” Key Issue to record the full range of anti-corruption efforts.

Project ID

US-GOV-1-LR-AID-669-C-00-11-00050

Activity status

3 - Completion

Aid type

C01 - Project-type interventions

% to Liberia

100.00

Organisations

Accountable

U.S. Agency for International Development

Extending

U.S. Agency for International Development

Funding

U.S. Agency for International Development

Implementing

IBI International, Inc.

CRS code	%
Unknown (0)	24.72
Legislatures and political parties (15152)	0.68
Unknown (0)	0.63
Legal and judicial development (15130)	9.52
Public sector policy and administrative management (15110)	50.54
Anti-corruption organisations and institutions (15113)	13.91